Other stories

2026

• 5 July The unreasonable cost of conference presentation

2025

• 13 July What people said about an OpenZFS bug
• 10 July An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)
• 13 March fsync() after open() is an elaborate no-op
• 12 March We should improve libzfs somewhat

2024

• 27 October OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
• 5 October A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3
• 19 May I'm speaking at BSDCan 2024
• 11 March I'm speaking at AsiaBSDCon 2024
• 4 March quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development

2023

• 25 December A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?

2022

• 20 August The Rust I used to know
• 16 January GOOD COMPUTER: Boards
• 12 January GOOD COMPUTER: FAT32

2021

• 16 June io_uring is not an event system
• 10 April GOOD COMPUTER: a modern 80's-style computer

2020

• 17 August GOOD COMPUTER: mk2
• 27 July GOOD COMPUTER: XIAO bricked
• 24 July GOOD COMPUTER: XIAO
• 12 July GOOD COMPUTER: Broken SD module
• 7 July GOOD COMPUTER: Public Service Announcement
• 6 July GOOD COMPUTER: LCD graphics
• 5 July GOOD COMPUTER: LED counter
• 2 July GOOD COMPUTER: LCD
• 22 June GOOD COMPUTER: Z-machine
• 2 June GOOD COMPUTER: BASIC
• 28 April GOOD COMPUTER
• 29 February End times
• 11 January Tile windows

2019

• 7 December Switching to elementary OS

2018

• 14 August A talk about Consul

2017

• 17 January U 2 can U2F (linux.conf.au 2017)

2016

• 19 October CompCon 2016 in review
• 2 October A br1ef h1st0ry of P@sswords (CompCon 2016)
• 22 June U 2 can U2F (YAPC::NA 2016)

2015

• 20 June Secret level
• 17 June New release of salada, my JMAP server
• 14 June I was happy with this one
• 12 June An evening of programming puzzles...
• 27 May Fastmail is a SSRF target
• 24 May OAuth+SASL needs a username
• 23 May OAuth for libsasl2
• 12 May First release of salada, my JMAP server
• 19 April A JMAP library for Rust
• 22 February Pebble cricket: updates
• 12 February Everybody root
• 11 February Pebble cricket: name shortener
• 16 January Adding XMPP support to nginx
• 6 January Dummy renderer

2014

• 21 November Broken wire protocol
• 5 October NBN: test box
• 5 October NBN: inside the box
• 3 October NBN: the box
• 22 September Why I bought a Pebble
• 12 September Hexdump
• 9 August Anonymous objects
• 28 July Pebble cricket: draw
• 27 July Pebble cricket: SixFour
• 27 July Pebble cricket: long names
• 26 July Pebble cricket: innings change
• 25 July Pebble cricket: MVP
• 25 July Pebble cricket
• 21 July Introducing hopscotch, a tiny image proxy
• 15 July Dockerising a Perl application
• 14 July Deploying towncrier with Carton
• 11 July SSRF protection in Perl
• 26 June The new Gmail API
• 18 June Perl and etcd? I can help!
• 5 June OAuth2 protected resource errors
• 28 May A notifier app for Fastmail
• 20 May DJabberd mandatory TLS
• 15 April A status dashboard
• 23 March Wrap any Lua function with a sigc++ slot
• 17 March Experimenting with easing functions
• 2 March When good glyph atlases go bad
• 8 January Replacing Graphics::Magick with Imager
• 2 January That will do for tonight
• 1 January Particle systems are fun

2013

• 31 December A particle system
• 21 November The problem with cricket commentary in IRC
• 10 November Start of the new ship market
• 27 October Translation answers
• 25 October Translation question
• 25 October Google sending weird XMPP stuff
• 19 October Code::Blocks for Pioneer
• 16 October Building Pioneer's UI: Part 1: History
• 15 October Upgrading the office servers
• 12 October Multi-line text layout
• 11 October Start of the new bulletin board & chat form
• 3 October GCC's 'maybe unitialized' warning
• 29 September The secret truth of cross-platform development
• 18 September Thrust
• 30 August Building Pioneer's UI: Part 0: Introduction
• 10 July Randomly choosing complementary colours
• 15 May I bisected a kernel problem!
• 12 April My first Rust: Hello OpenGL
• 10 April My first Rust: SDL bindings
• 22 March the google drive api doesn't know about paths, and that's bad
• 28 February Its looking pretty nice!
• 21 February A Lua puzzle
• 16 February Steam Linux
• 30 January On jousting
• 25 January Pioneer is looking real nice these days
• 15 January Regression
• 9 January hacking shenanigans, episode 17
• 3 January Sunrise over New Hope

2012

• 28 December Cameras can be tricky little suckers...
• 25 December Space doesn't care that its Christmas
• 20 December APT policy facts
• 16 December It begins. Again.
• 14 December Computer has been getting slower and slower...
• 10 December A little toy for a tired evening...  
• 16 November Pretty sliders
• 16 November I just noticed that our new ship is engaged in fruit transport
• 12 November Bounce
• 9 November Cricket bot
• 6 November Pioneer, Elite: Dangerous, and the questions nobody asked
• 5 November You, c.3200
• 27 October We've got some pretty crazy collaboration going on...
• 22 October ZFS on Linux pretty much just works
• 22 October People are getting excited about new UI toys
• 15 October New info view is coming along nicely
• 13 October Starting to integrate the new UI
• 9 October New UI in pull request
• 9 October main menu, alpha 9, 18 months ago
• 17 September I don't always get things completely wrong...
• 18 August So you think you have nothing to offer
• 15 August Perl and OpenGL?
• 12 August More refactoring today
• 30 July A little experiment I did tonight
• 29 July just got new gas giant rings and they look amazing
• 4 June don't you die on me!
• 21 May Finally got back into some UI work today
• 20 May A code generation bug
• 18 May To determine if its doing a cross-compile...
• 30 April Responding to a sigc++ signal by firing another signal
• 29 April The simplest things...
• 6 February gui brainstorm

2011

• 18 May using stb_truetype with sdl
• 20 February ooh aah oolua
• 5 February what jelly dreams are made of

2010

• 13 November make something
• 6 November Net::OpenID for Perl: its alive!
• 6 August low tide
• 12 June delicious ripple cake!
• 14 May this one time, at band camp...
• 28 April its like a swipe card for aliens
• 4 March every good thing
• 9 February location location location
• 4 February board games
• 29 January catch a ride
• 28 January confessions of a shopaholic
• 17 January new year's high resolution

2009

• 10 December i like repetetive music
• 10 December how 'bout some horn?
• 27 July putting things in context
• 29 June from the ground up
• 9 May blast from the past
• 4 May i've got a package
• 3 May rectangle rodeo
• 28 April delicious cake
• 1 April all the pretty colours
• 28 January cluttering my life

2008

• 17 July some assembly required
• 19 June lately
• 4 June tied at both ends
• 9 March the centre for kids who can't write good
• 2 March while stocks last
• 25 February lay it out for me
• 18 February cow launched!
• 17 February needs more pirate
• 11 February back from egypt
• 1 February i don't want your money, i just want your love
• 29 January i can write forever
• 22 January with a bullet
• 18 January note to self
• 16 January a rock opera in three parts
• 14 January year in review
• 9 January i'm going to egypt; i'll bring you back something nice
• 7 January a global problem
• 1 January year of something

2007

• 19 December zooooooon!
• 18 December virtual insanity
• 13 December rivendell is kinda crap actually
• 12 December visiting the elves
• 10 December this is not the symbol you're looking for
• 9 December snag
• 8 December not implemented
• 1 December bitchin' threads
• 25 November its fontastic!
• 21 November types, not as we know them
• 20 November build, build, as fast as you can
• 18 November a curly one
• 16 November a fine old port
• 15 November one for the road
• 14 November opinion noted
• 11 November tastes like chicken
• 10 November the big week
• 3 November twisty passages, all aligned
• 31 October odd jobs
• 28 October aros and the gpl
• 25 October a plan for a filesystem
• 16 October brb fighting monsterz
• 11 October how do i linked code?
• 7 October cout << 'hello' << endl
• 4 October flushed away
• 2 October almost there
• 26 September its alive!
• 26 September i'm doing it wrong
• 23 September i can see forever
• 22 September dreaming in colour
• 21 September can't make the scene if you ain't got the green
• 19 September at least its something
• 17 September insanity in three parts
• 12 September i'll be your host this evening
• 10 September when good libraries go bad
• 7 September a tale of two compilers
• 1 September standing on the shoulders of minnows
• 30 August don't you know its rude to point?
• 21 August blah, or something like it
• 11 August many unrelated things
• 22 July chasing parked c(h)ars
• 17 July how slow can you go?
• 15 July lda #$00
• 6 July going old school
• 2 July writeback
• 28 June tunnelling for two
• 26 June busybot
• 23 June early tests
• 22 June when i was 17...
• 22 June pipe the what?
• 18 June can't get enough
• 17 June the mundane details
• 16 June too many tangents
• 13 June its all pipes
• 12 June open for business
• 10 June merge left
• 7 June the special ones
• 7 June i've got something to report
• 4 June another nail in the coffin
• 1 June consolation prize
• 31 May follow me into the caves!
• 23 May lock it in
• 21 May supersize me
• 17 May opinion noted
• 9 May the locksmith
• 5 May not to scale
• 3 May phew
• 29 April later that day
• 28 April now with files!
• 24 April in your face
• 20 April and like that, its gone
• 19 April how may i direct your call?
• 17 April a word tells a thousand pictures
• 15 April write on, commander
• 4 April everything old is new again
• 29 March slow and steady
• 25 March once more with feeling
• 21 March i was smart once
• 19 March my brain hurts
• 13 March i'm the boss, need the info
• 12 March it gets late early these days
• 9 March some mail
• 7 March now comes the tricky bit
• 5 March first drop
• 28 February its the browser, stupid
• 28 February cold fusion explosion
• 27 February boring stuff
• 23 February milestone
• 20 February mounting excitement
• 14 February start me up
• 12 February insert clever title here
• 11 February damn technicalities
• 8 February global pandemic
• 8 February exercises for the reader
• 6 February front end loader
• 4 February you are confused; but this is your normal state
• 2 February all packeted up (with somewhere to go)
• 29 January where everybody knows your name
• 25 January the nurses are stealing my money
• 25 January drowning in a sea of unfamiliar code
• 24 January in soviet russia, system files you
• 23 January quiet time
• 22 January my hat is awesome!
• 20 January optimise for fun
• 20 January let's all get drunk and play ping-pong
• 19 January spinning around
• 18 January i can hear you mummy!
• 16 January the avid reader
• 13 January for extra strength bitrot, use aspro clear
• 12 January ouroboros

2006

• 20 October tile me purple
• 15 September getting testy
• 1 September vimming for fun and profit
• 27 August constant classes
• 20 August a 'complete' success
• 19 August closures in c

2003

• 2 June A crash course in SASL and DIGEST-MD5 for XMPP

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